Blanche Montel
actress
- Birth name:
- Rose Blanche Jeanne Montel
- Born:
- 1902-08-14, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- Died:
- 1998-03-31, Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Blanche Montel entered the world on 14 August 1902 in the cathedral-shadowed streets of Tours, Indre-et-Loire, and stepped onto screens while still a teenager, steering a barge through Jean Epstein’s lyrical La belle Nivernaise (1924). A decade later she buckled swash as Queen Anne opposite John Wayne in the 1932 Three Musketeers, then traded rapiers for ruffles in Miquette et sa mère (1933). Off-set she joined forces with director Henri Decoin, their marriage fusing two of French cinema’s busiest creative engines. Nearly a century after her first close-up, she drew her final breath on 31 March 1998 in the tranquil commune of Luzarches, Val-d’Oise, leaving behind a filmography that glimmers like the Loire at sunset.
